On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 2:39 PM, Deepa Mohan <mohande...@gmail.com> wrote:

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> Wow Charles. Must get hold of this book. A human being with no words
> for numbers? Incredible....
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> Deepa.
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Deepa - you can hear a lecture that Daniel Everett gave about the Pirahã
Indians from the Long Now foundation - http://is.gd/r7r9. TBH, it was this
lecture that finally clued in me on the importance of preserving languages
and oral traditions (the whole field of anthropology I would say).

--
Balaji

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